... contact with new people. However, relational dialectics offers several methods after intimacy started. Baxter and Montgomery view relational dialectics as a perspective, which series of assumptions rather than theory or a hierarchical list of axioms and arguments. These two scholars have identified four key assumptions of a dialectical perspective: contradiction, change, praxis and totality (Canary & Zelley, 1999, p: 324). Uncertainty reduction theory instead of making ... ...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate